We wonder whether Prosecutor General Drago Šketa will soften at least a little and show a gesture of solidarity towards suffering Ukrainian women, children, orphans, the disabled, etc. trampled by Russian tanks, and will withdraw from the recently signed agreement with the Russian State Prosecutor’s Office in Moscow? Or will he stubbornly insist on it, …
The world has been fundamentally changed by Ukraine. This is true, although nearly all Western coverage has been scaredy-cat and daft. Russia expected to waltz into Ukraine. It didn‘t. Russian forces have failed in all their objectives. A thousand Russian soldiers die each day of the assault. In the four days prior to this writing, 4,000 have …
The Russian-owned Slovenia’s Sberbank subsidiary, which suspended its operations on Sunday due to sanctions against Russia, was bought by Slovenian NLB Bank on Tuesday. After two days of all of Sberbank’s branches being closed, all of the bank’s operations are once again working normally since Wednesday, the Governor of the Bank of Slovenia, Boštjan Vasle, …
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“The war should not be happening, and whatever led to it and gave Putin a reason to do what he is doing should not have happened either,” said Milan Kučan, a former leader of the League of Communists of Slovenia at Tuesday’s so-called peace rally, adding that he was really concerned about the fact that …
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In addition to it being a betrayal of Ukraine, Tuesday’s protest that was held on the Republic Square in Ljubljana was also a betrayal of Slovenia, similar to the one we saw 30 years ago, when Slovenia’s independence was being threatened by the occupier – the Yugoslav People’s Army. And on Tuesday, the same people …
The Slovenian Foreign Ministry said that the building housing the Slovenian consulate in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv had been destroyed in Tuesday’s attack by the Russian army, condemning the act as well as Russia’s aggression on Ukraine as such. Consulate employees were not injured. “We have been informed that the consulate of the Republic …
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If, in the light of Russian aggression against Ukraine, anyone wonders why Ukraine is so important to Russian President Vladimir Putin and why he wants to regain it under his influence, there is no doubt that some facts about Ukraine’s natural resources need to be known. For example, Ukraine is the first in Europe in …
The statistical office announced today that Slovenia’s GDP grew by 8.1 percent in real terms last year, after falling by 4.2 percent after the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic and the partial closure of public life in 2020. According to seasonally adjusted data used for comparisons in the EU, economic activity also recovered by 8.1 …
Prime Minister Janez Janša was a guest on the programme Odmevi plus on TV Slovenija 1, talking about the latest developments related to the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. On the programme, Prime Minister Janša said that Putin could not win the war in Ukraine. As regards talks between Russia and Ukraine, he …
Today, on Wednesday, 2 March, at 17:00, a big rally in support of Ukraine will take place in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. Slovenians remember well 1991, when we were invaded by the Yugoslav army. Today’s messages will be »Ukrainians, hold on, Slovenians are with you« and »Putin, hands off Ukraine!«. The protest rally is …
Russia closed its airspace for Slovenian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian planes, a retaliatory measure after these countries banned Russian aircraft from their airspace due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “Due to unfriendly moves by aviation authorities of Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia and Estonia, restrictions will be introduced for air carriers of the above-mentioned states and/or airlines …
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The Slovenian Olympic Committee called on all sports associations to refrain from participating in competitions organised in Russian and Belarus. It said that although sports should be above politics, “we simply cannot and should not look the other way” as Russia attacks Ukraine. “This is an unfathomable act that is causing the suffering of innocent …
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